Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. viii, 416 pp, b&w frontis, acknowledgments, Introduction: Rogues and Early Modern English Culture; Part 1. Theories of the Rogue: Fashioning Outlaws: the Early Modern Rogue and Urban Culture by Craig Dionne; The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: A Transversal Enterprise by Bryan Reynolds and Janna Segal; New Historicism, Historical Context, and the Literature of Roguery: The Case of Thomas Harman Reopened by A. L. Blair; The Counterfeit Vagrant: The Dynamic of Deviance in the Bridewell Court Records and the Literature of Roguery by Marti;ne van Elk. Part 2. Marketplaces and Rogue Economics: The Peddler and the Pawn: Why Did Tudor England Consider Peddlers to be Rogues? by Linda Woodbridge; "Masters of Their Occupation": Labor and Fellowship in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets by Patricia Fumerton. Part 3. Rogues and the Early Modern City: Sin City and the "Urban Condom": Ropgues, Writing, and the Early Modern Urban Environment by Adam Hansen; Magic Books: Cony-Catching and the Romance of Early Modern London by Steve Mentz. Part 4. Typologies of the Rogue: Vagabond Veterans: The Roguish Company of Martin Guerre and Henry V by Linda Bradley Salamon; Black Acts: Textual Labor and Commercial Deceit in Dekker's Lantern and Candlelight by Laurie Ellinghausen; Englishing th Roguee, "Translating" the Irish: Fantasies of Incorporation and Early Modern English National Identity by; Brooke A. Stafford; The Ambivalent Rogue: Moll Flanders as Modern Picara by Tina Kuhlisch; Afterword: (Re)presenting the Early Modern Rogue by Arthur F. Kinney; contributors, index. First Edition, 2004. "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously -- the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the range, diversity, and tensions within early modern scholarship, making this quite simply the best overview of their significance then and now." Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with glossy bronze lettering to spine..